Benson, Benson, and Ilson (1986) categorized English collocations into two classes: lexical collocations and grammatical collocations (with 7 and 8 types respectively); lexical collocations are made up only of verbs, adjectives, nouns and adverbs in different possible combinations while grammatical collocations contain words such as verbs, adjectives or nouns combined with a preposition or a grammatical structure. A table of collocations (alongside 37 patterns) categorized based on their study follows:

Pattern

Example(s)

V + N/P (or prepositional phrase)

compose music; set an alarm

V + Adv

walk heavily; argue heatedly

V + N

make a decision; take place/part

Adj + N

strong/weak tea

N + V

bombs explode; alarms go off

N1 + of + N2

a pride of lions; a bunch of keys

Adv + Adj

quite safe; deeply absorbed

N + Prep

ability in/at; kind of; changes in

N + to + Inf

an attempt to do it; years to come

N + that-clause

He took an oath that he would do his duty.We reach an agreement that …; fact that

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